The Cecil Whig., 1887-05-28
NO RUM FOR REPUBLICANS.


Speaks.
The great hall of Cooper Union
New York was filled on Wednesday
night in response to the call for mass
meeting under the auspices of the anti
Saloon Republican League to discuss
the saloon question. Among the per
sons on the platform were ex-Chiet-
Justice Noah Davis, eX Secretary Win
dom, of the United States Treasury
Postmaster General Thomas L.
James, Albert Griffin and Theodore
Roosevelt, John Y. Foster, Major L.
X. Pangborn, DR.. Daniel Dorchester
and James NIcGee.
The meeting was called to order by
Albert Griffin, the chairman of the
Anti Saloon Republican National Com
mittee. He made an address of some
length, then introduced Judge Davis,
who was greeted with prolonged ap-
plause. He said:
''ln a country like ours, where thought
ard speech are free and mems actions
are governed or may be by their iudivi-
dual sense of duty, nothing is more i'm
portant tOr the purposes OF political
management of the Government than
that political parties should exist. Why,
with parties and party action the people
have the power TO control the destlnles
ari guide the affiirS of the whole coun-
try. | am not here to cGudemu the eX-
istence of parties. | am here, on the con-
trary, to say that they are necessary. l
am aware that some may call them
necessary evils. call them necessary
blessings. Nothing can be truer than
that when party i'll country like ours
allies itself with a great moral evil its
days are numbered" Judge Davis then
went on to say that the Democratic party
in the heydey of its power allied itself
with the greatest of all evils, the sla-
very of race and the result was it was
driven from power and kept out of power
for twenty four years. The alliance of
the Democratic party lie said, with
human slavery was one contrary to the
laws of God and contrary to the laws of
Democracy" Judge Davis then went
into an extensive review of the history of
the Republican party, and wound up by
saying that il has today the most glorious
record of any party that ever existed, and
tor those reasons there was no necessity
for the organization of a new party. 81
hold," he exclaimed that the Republican
party is the only possible agency for ac-
comprising the work that lies before
us" Conditions very similar to those
existing at the birth of the Republican
party prevail to-day. "Auother great
moral evil threatens the safety of the
country. The liquor saloon, that agency
of hell itself, has become an agency not
only for the destruction of individuals,
but an agency also for the control of
parties. 1t is an evil that need not be
described. You see it's effects in the
streets, in the jails. in the warehouses,
but if you would see it in its worst form
climb the stairs Of yonder tenement and
see the misery it has wrought in the
homes of honest labor.
And TO day we see as clearly as the
spectator of forty years ago saw the ALL
ance between the Democratic party and
the cause of slavery similar alliance,
closer, nearer and more inseparable be-
tween the Democratic party and this evil
which threatens the very existence of
the people. Did you read IN Wednesday
nights papers the exhibition of 1T at AL
bauy to-day? When the Nedder bill,
which proposee to tax the liquor interest
for the benefit of the people, came up to
be voted on today, behold the Demo
cratic hosts soidly opposing its passage.
And why does the Democratic party ally
itself with the liquor interest,"? Because
by its 'Ltiuence they hope to gain control
Of the State and of the nation. There
are vast numbers of respectable men In
the Democratic party, but these respec-
table Democrats do not raise their voices
against the liquor interest, because they
say 1t viii hurt my party Aud because
the Democratic party has allied itself
with this evil as it allied itself with the
evil of slavery forty years ago, the de-
struction of that party is as certain as it
is that intelligence and moral principles
are components of the human mind. (Pro-
longed applause.)
"Repuhlicans. shall we go back? There
is but one duty before us, and that duty
is what the National Anti Saloon Com
mittee proposes to bring the Republican
party up to-open aud uncompr0mising
hostility to the saloon, and, when the
time come, to stamp it altogether out
of existence. (Applause) The Repub-
lican party stands today as it has always
stood for protection to American indus
try, protection to Amc. lean labor, for
welcoming to our shores every refugee
from deSpotiSm, no matter from what
cline he may come, if he comes in search
OF liberty and for the purpose of availng
himself of the benefits of American citi-
Zenship. But if he comes here with
Anarchy in his bosom, with Nihilism in
his head, with dynamite in his hand,
say God help him, (Great applause.) On
all these questions the Republican party
stands firm today. And as to the liquor
question, we see also that the only Or
ganzation existing today that can ac
compliSh any real good in that direction
is the Republican party. | am aware
that scme are in favor of forming a new
party to supplant the Republican party,
but, for my part, | say accursed be the
hand that would tear it down" PRO
lpnged applause Speaking of the on
position to the Prohibition movement
Judge Davis said: Look at that Wes-
tern State whose saloons sent out a gapg
of murderers to kill clergyman who
dared to collect evidence against the sa
looms Look at that Southern State
where men are on trial to-day for killing
an editor who had the courage to arraion
and condemn the traffic in rum. Look
at the State of Ohio, where very recently
an attempt was made to blow I'D with
dynamite 4 church in which men. women
and children were holding a temperance
NEE ing. and where the most dreadful,
destruction of life WAS ayerted oply by
the inter position of Providence, Rut II
| keep on in this strain the Democrats
will be telling us tomorrow that we are
waving the bloody shirt. But if murder